The later period
of penny fiction is dominated by the boys' school and adventure
stories of Bracebridge Hemyng, George Emmett and Edwin Harcourt
Burrage. The former invented in Jack Harkaway a popular hero who
survived for twenty-five years. His adventures all over the globe
were serialised in the boys' periodicals published by Edwin J. Brett,
and then issued and re-issued in parts and paperback sixpenny or
shilling volumes, usually undated. The bibliography of these is
extremely complicated.